Body of Irish woman to return home on Friday

It has been confirmed that the body of Eilis Finnegan will be brought home to Ireland on Friday.

The 27 year-old from Ballyfermot in Dublin is the first confirmed Irish fatality of the Asian tsunami.

She had arrived in the southern Thai resort of Phi Phi on St Stephen's morning when the tidal waves hit. Eilis's body was identified after days of searching the wreckage of the quake floods.